Re: Accellera and DASC

Bailey, Stephen wrote:

> Evan,
>
> I'm sure Peter will provide detailed information and/or correct me if
> I have gotten any of the information below wrong or it is incomplete.
>
>
> I'd like to know what questions/issues motivated this email?

The primary motivation was Gabe Moretti's recent series of articles for
EDN (the last one is at
<http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA425604?industryid=2813&nid=2017&rid=1470711747>).

These are clearly biased and can only serve to undermine the DASC.
However, Gabe consistently omits to mention his connection with
Accellera. This is an issue for us, since he is also a DASC and a NesCom
member.

The second motivation is, of course, the upcoming SystemVerilog PAR. We
need to know what the agenda is before this is pushed through.

> Accellera membership is corporation/organization based. It's
> membership list is published at:
> http://www.accellera.org/member.html. Only corporate members are
> eligible for Accellera board membership.

There doesn't appear to be a list of Accellera officers at
accellera.org. As far as I know, both Dennis Brophy and Gabe Moretti,
and possibly other DASC members, have positions within Accellera. I
don't have any objections to corporate connections with Accellera, but I
do believe that we need to identify DASC and NesCom members with
personal connections, paid or unpaid.

Evan Lavelle
Received on Mon Jun 14 08:38:30 2004